Juniper Networks Selected by KK Networks for Sustainable Cloud Metro Network Deployment Delivering Superior Quality of Experience for Residential & Business Users
22 Februar 2024 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
KK Networks is transforming broadband services
in Pakistan with Juniper to support exponential demand and an
improved digital economy
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), a leader in secure, AI-Native
Networks, today announced that it is providing KK Networks, one of
the fastest growing internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Pakistan,
with a scalable and resilient Cloud Metro network. The network will
provide residential users with affordable internet access and an
enhanced quality of experience, while also providing a sustainable
services delivery platform for KK Networks (KKN). KKN is also
expanding its offering with business-grade internet services using
the transformed network. The new, robust Cloud Metro infrastructure
will cover extensive areas of Lahore, Pakistan with plans to extend
further over time.
The company has also upgraded its data centers with
state-of-the-art automation software and secure, high-performance
platforms from Juniper to streamline and optimize the design,
deployment and operations of the network fabric. This will
complement the Cloud Metro platform, further enhancing the overall
user experience at scale.
KKN is a fast-growing internet service provider that has rapidly
evolved to accommodate the surging demand in Pakistan for digital
services. Following a four-fold increase in its user base in Lahore
in just two years, KKN needed a robust metro network to handle the
increasing demand on bandwidth which today serves 140,000
residential customers and growing. Juniper’s Cloud Metro solution
was chosen specifically to provide a platform that can scale
alongside KKN’s continued traffic growth and support the
distributed nature of its user base and therefore traffic
patterns.
With its previous network, internet performance would often slow
during peak hours. Frequent network congestion meant that
subscribers’ internet connections would often drop. With a
transformed metro network that keeps up with the pace and scale of
demand, KKN can now deliver reliable internet connectivity with
enhanced quality of experience for its subscribers. The company is
continuing a high-growth trajectory with an opportunity to bring
high-performance, differentiated internet services to thousands of
homes and businesses in Pakistan.
KKN has an ongoing objective to help support and enhance the
digital economy in Pakistan. Approximately half of the 230 million
population is still without access to broadband internet services
today, according to the Pakistan Telecom Authority. The Cloud Metro
network from Juniper equips KKN to create reliable, high-quality
digital connections that can improve economic opportunity, build a
stronger community and foster better education. Juniper Cloud
Metro’s compact and efficient system design enables KKN to deliver
more energy-efficient operations. Additional to improving its own
operational costs, this also bolsters its ability to offer
affordable broadband for customers across the region.
News Highlights
- KKN deployed the Juniper Cloud Metro solution to scale
capacity, improve resiliency and deliver low-latency user
experiences for residential and business services.
- High-capacity Juniper ACX7100-32C Cloud Metro routers form the
aggregation network, meeting KKN’s growth requirements with a
compact, power-efficient design for operational efficiency.
- The Juniper ACX710 Universal Metro Router is used for the
access layer. As a compact, hardened platform, the ACX710 can be
deployed indoors or outdoors. Its high port density and small
footprint allow KKN to support a higher number of customers
efficiently. Lower energy consumption means KKN can deliver its
services more sustainably.
- KKN also uses Juniper’s AI-driven, high-performance EX2300
Ethernet Switch to extend connectivity to its business customers.
The cloud-ready EX switches are easy to onboard, configure and
manage, ensuring quick and easy deployment for KKN’s business
customers.
- KKN uses Juniper QFX5120 switches for the data center underlay
network, EVPN-VXLAN for the overlay network and EX2300s to create a
data center fabric that supports up to 100GbE interfaces. This
enables the network to keep pace with customer demand for content
delivery, voice, video and other bandwidth-hungry services.
- KKN plans to deploy Juniper Apstra™ intent-based networking
software in its product roadmap, to automate and validate the
design, deployment and operation of the data center fabric to
ensure reliable operations. With multi-vendor support, Apstra will
empower KKN to automate and manage networks across any data center
location, vendor and topology.
Supporting Quotes
“KKN is determined to improve and expand internet services
across Lahore, Pakistan, to ensure that our customers have the best
digital experiences. With Juniper, our new Cloud Metro network has
observed 99.9 per cent uptime, delivering an accessible,
high-performance digital platform to 14 regions in Lahore. With
this new low-latency, resilient network, KKN can continue to grow
our customer base with confidence that residential and business
customers can rely on great connectivity to a sustainable network
that can handle the demand.”
- Imran Ali, CEO, KK Networks
“Juniper continuously strives to enable remarkable digital
experiences for our customers’ users, and the Cloud Metro solution
is a perfect example of our market-leading innovation, applying
cloud principles to metro networks. KK Networks is undertaking a
transformative journey, upgrading from a traditional “Retro Metro”
that cannot keep up with demand for today’s digital services at
scale, to Juniper’s high-performance Cloud Metro infrastructure
that makes sustainable, future-proof business growth possible for
service providers globally.”
- AE Natarajan, Executive Vice President,
Juniper Networks
Additional Resources
Juniper Solution: Cloud Metro
About Juniper Networks
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